Power Grid Blog
AAPD Files Brief in Supreme Court Defending the Expansion of Medicaid in the Health Care Reform Act
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 21, 2012
AAPD has joined 78 other organizations, including many which advocate for the concerns of persons with disabilities, to file an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court defending the provisions in the Health Care reform Act (the Affordable Care Act) which expand the Medicaid program. Learn More »
Blog Category: Health and Benefits, Disability Rights
Amazing Gifts: Stories of Faith, Disability, and Inclusion
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 17, 2012
Amazing Gifts, released today by the Alban Institute, is one of those rare books that educates without feeling like a homework assignment. The compilation of 64 stories about people of faith who have disabilities inspires the reader with a sense of possibility, capability, and faith. Learn More »
Blog Category: Disability culture, Accessibility, Interfaith
Our Interfaith Work: An Amazing Gift
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 17, 2012
Today the AAPD family celebrates the release of Amazing Gifts: Stories of Faith, Disability, and Inclusion. This release was a moment four years in the making. Ginny Thornburgh, director of AAPD’s Interfaith Initiative, envisioned, promoted, and nurtured this project from start to finish, and wrote the book’s foreword. Learn More »
Blog Category: Disability culture, Interfaith
Employment and Youth with Disabilities
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 16, 2012
The most important issue for young people nationally is employment. For young people nationally, we have come of age in an era of economic fragility. We graduated from colleges and universities proudly clutching our degrees and absolutely ready for the world. Learn More »
Blog Category: Workplace and Employment
Are Smartphones Threatening the Future of Braille?
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 15, 2012
With apps that unlock cars, tell you the song that is playing on the radio, and can read the barcode of a product to tell you the price, it sometimes makes you wonder if there is anything that Smartphones cannot do. Learn More »
Blog Category: Disability culture, Accessibility
AAPD's Hearne Leadership Award Winners Announced
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 14, 2012
The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is pleased to announce Mark Barlet and Amber Smock as the winners of the prestigious 2012 Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award. Barlet, of Harper’s Ferry, WV and Smock, of Chicago, IL will be presented with their awards, which are given to emerging leaders within the national cross-disability community, at the 2012 AAPD Leadership Gala, an awards ceremony and dinner, on March 21, 2012 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. Learn More »
Marc Ecko's Contribution to the Disability Community
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 10, 2012
Fashion is serious. Style is how you want the world to see you. That’s what Marc Ecko told us on February 7 before inviting me, my colleague Lara , and six models with disabilities plus their friends and family members to wander around his showroom and take a look at his new designs. Learn More »
Blog Category: Entertainment
Disability Matters: Joyce Bender with Pat Shiu on Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 10, 2012
On February 7, 2012, Joyce Bender hosted her radio show Disability Matters with special guest Pat Shiu, the director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for the United States Department of Labor. Learn More »
Blog Category: Workplace and Employment
Ensuring Equal Employment Opportunity for People with Disabilities
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 8, 2012
The American Association of People with Disabilities has submitted comments in support of the Department of Labor/ Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) proposed rules to strengthen the affirmative action obligations of federal contractors to improve job opportunities for people with disabilities. Learn More »
Blog Category: Workplace and Employment
Inside Fashion Designer Marc Ecko's Studio
By AAPD Power Grid Blog Team | February 7, 2012
I'm here at Marc Ecko's studio with six models from our community who are here for a film shoot, interviews, and production of a film about our power, style, and beauty. Learn More »
